Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …

We investigate the role of information frictions in migration. We develop novel moment inequalities to estimate worker … preferences while allowing for unobserved worker-specific information sets, migration costs, and location-specific amenities and … prices. Using data on internal migration in Brazil, we find that common estimation procedures underestimate the importance of …

migration, we do not measure any significant changes in native internal mobility. Then, using a panel regression and a shift …

Internal migration in the United States has declined substantially over the past several decades, which has important … internal migration and how they have changed over time. We use administrative data from the IRS covering the universe of … local wage levels and home prices, and we estimate bilateral migration determinants in rich regression specifications that …

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results … countries. Third, we exploit variation in the long-run change in average US climate from 1900 to 2019 and find that migration …. Finally, we project how climate change shapes the geography of US population growth by altering migration patterns, both …

I study the internal migration of native-born white men in the United States using linked census data covering all … possible 10- and 20-year periods 1850--1940. Inter-county migration rates were stable over time. Selection into migration on … internal migration changed, declining in distance, becoming more directed towards the west, and increasingly driving …